# A Song for a Coworker: Farewell, Retirement or Birthday > A personalized song for a coworker who is leaving, retiring or having a birthday at the office. Office-safe humor and an easy way for a team to collect stories. Source: https://lyromusic.com/gift-song/coworker # A personalized song for a coworker The farewell card that goes around the office usually comes back full of "Good luck!!" in six different pens. A song made from the team’s real stories about this person, the spreadsheet they built, the snacks they hid, is the version people still bring up at reunions. [Create the song · US$29](#form) To be clear: Lyro is made with AI. AI writes the lyrics from what you tell us, an AI voice sings them, and you decide what gets sung before it happens. ## When a team gives a song - **Leaving for a new job:** proud of them, a little hurt, teasing about the "traitor." The tone is a cheerful send-off. - **Retirement:** a whole career. Ask the people who have worked with them for twenty years; the song can run from their first day to the last. - **Birthday in the office:** short, funny and played in the break room before the cake gets cut. - **A work anniversary:** ten or twenty-five years with the company deserves more than an automated email. - **Parental leave:** a warm "we'll hold down the fort" before they leave for the baby. ## How a team collects details without a meeting Pick one organizer. Set up a private chat thread or a shared doc without the person in it, and ask three questions only: a work moment you remember with them, a phrase they always use, and one thing you will miss. Give it two days. People answer short questions; they ignore long ones. The organizer then chooses the details most of the team recognizes, not one person's private joke from a 2019 conference. Before you make the song, have someone outside their inner circle read the lyrics. If they get every reference, the room will too. ## Office-safe humor: where the line is Joke about: the label maker, the reply-all incident, their parking spot, the fantasy league they run, the chili that wins the potluck every year, the long war with the printer. Leave out: looks, age jokes at a retirement unless they make them first, relationships, stories from the holiday party, salary, office politics, and why they are leaving. A simple test: if you would not say it with HR and their family in the room, it does not go in. ## Playing it in the office or on a video call - **In person:** play it at the farewell lunch or before the cake. Laptop speakers are thin, so bring a small speaker. - **Remote teams:** screen-sharing audio often stutters. Post the gift page link in the chat at the end of the last team call and have everyone press play together, or simply send it and let them listen in private. - **The card replacement:** put every teammate's name in the message on the gift page. It becomes the farewell card. ## Style, cost and how it is made **Rock** suits the person who held the whole department together. ** Country** fits a retirement after thirty years at the plant or the depot. ** Pop** is right for an office birthday. Lyro is made with AI: AI turns the team's notes into lyrics and an AI voice sings them, and the organizer can edit every line first. It costs $29 once, which split across a team is less than a sandwich each. ## Sample lyric: farewell for a coworker after nine years An example, so you can see how specific lyrics can get. Your song is written from your details. [Verse 1] Dana built the spreadsheet that the whole floor runs on Twelve color-coded tabs, and nobody touches one Nine years of "per my last email," polite but crystal clear She fixed the jammed printer every Monday of the year [Chorus] So long, Dana, the third floor won’t be the same Who’s gonna find the files and remember every name Go take that new job, go show them how it’s done But we’re keeping your mug, Dana, you’re still number one [Bridge] Leave us the code to the snack drawer, please We’ll try to reply-all with half your expertise **US$29** one-time - Lyrics written from your details, yours to read and edit before anything is sung - One full song of about 2 to 2.5 minutes, up to 3 versions to choose from - A personal gift page with the song, the lyrics and your message - MP3 download, no subscription, no account fees [Create the song](#form) ## Tell us about themThe more specific, the more personal the song. You read the lyrics before they are sung, and you can change them. ## Frequently asked questions ### How do we split the cost? One person pays the one-time price at checkout and the others chip in however your team usually does it. There is no subscription and nothing to cancel afterward. ### What if most of us don’t know them well? Ask the two or three people who work closest with them for the personal details, and fill the rest with their role and the team's culture: the Monday standup, the deadline they rescued, the coffee machine they fixed. ### Does it work for a retirement after 30 years? Very well. Tell us about their first year, how the job changed around them, from fax machines to video calls, and the people they trained along the way. A slower country or acoustic sound suits the career story. ### Can we play it at a company event? Yes, playing it at the farewell party, in the office or on a team call is private use. Using it in company advertising or a recruiting video is commercial use, which is not included. ### Can we keep it a surprise? Yes. The song lives on a gift page that only people with the link can open, so nothing reaches them until you send it or press play in the room. ### Is the song made with AI? Yes. The lyrics come from AI working from your team's notes, and an AI voice sings them. Everything can be edited before the song is made. 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